Drug dealer sentenced to 15 days in jail

A young man who arrived from Moselle with seventeen sachets of hashish in his pockets has been sent to jail in Monaco for 15 days for possession, transport, importation, and the offering for sale of narcotics.

The unemployed 20 year-old had sachets in his possession with a total weight of 17.78 grammes. He intended to go to Larvotto beach to make the sales, the Criminal Court was told.

Stopped on the Boulevard Louis-II in mid-afternoon on Sunday, August 12, the defendant admitted having bought cannabis in Marseille and Cannes for 120 euros. He was about to offer one gramme and two gramme bags of cannabis for five and ten euros, and had posted videos on Snapchat to advertise his product.

The accused said that his mother sent him spending money and that he had no idea that selling cannabis was an offence in Monaco. The young man has a long record of criminality in France, the court heard. His lawyer asked the court for a suspended sentence while the prosecution demanded four months in prison and a ten year ban from Monaco.

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The French state is offering €200 towards the cost of buying an electrically assisted bicycle. The payment will be offered from now until January 31, 2018. The motor must be less than 3kW and without a lead battery, according to the Official Journal published on Saturday, February 18. Each payment will be limited to one per person, and not per machine.
A number of local authorities – Paris, Blois, Rouen – already offer up to €400 as a subsidy, and the €200 from the state would be on top of this. Motorised bicycles usually cost more than €700 euros. In Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, 400 people have already benefited from a subsidy of €250, amounting to about 1.3 percent of the town’s total population.

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Zurich, the richest city in Switzerland, has discovered that among the 9,000 homes designated for those in need, many are currently occupied by millionaires.
Having found out at the end of 2014 that 132 millionaires were living in ‘social housing,’ the city authorities have introduced a maximum annual income of 200,000 euros to qualify for municipal housing, according to local newspaper Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
Since 2011, the city has insisted that one-third of homes in new developments should be made available to those on low incomes. The authorities had failed to check on the eligibility of those who moved in to social housing before that date.
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